Mister, once
mo' I ask you to untie that po' nigger, and then we will git at the
evidence. You hearn what the preacher said, and--"
Through the bushes a man came stalking. He was rugged and brusque, but
he bowed to the women and offered to shake hands with the men; but
Jasper inquired as to his business upon the scene, and put him back upon
formality until this point should be settled.
"Why, it's jest this," said he, looking round at the negro. "I was a
drivin' down the hill jest now, and a drivin' peart, when out run a dog
and bit at my hosses' feet. One of the hosses knocked him down and befo'
he could git up the wheel run over him. It made me mad, come a bitin' at
my hosses, an' I driv on, but I got to thinkin' that somebody mout be
accused of killin' him, so I come back, an' shore enough here you'd got
a nigger tied up. The killin' was a accident."
"All right, gentlemen," said Sanderson. "I'll turn him loose, and it
will be a good lesson fur him--it will l'arn him not to kill no dog of
mine. Cut the rope, Bob," he added, speaking to one of the boys.
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